xkcd: Dishonest vs Honest Media

Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse Helicopter Rescue

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Happy Pi Day 2009!

Image from here.

See previous posts on Pi.

"99 percent of all species that have lived on Earth are now extinct"

This quote was from an interesting article on discovery.com about the strange creatures that have gone extinct. I think it begs the question: "will humans eventually go on that list and when will do will robots take over the world?"

Correlation

Congrats to the IB Olympiad competitors

I just wanted to take a minute to congratulate all the competitors in this year's Olympiad for getting through to the end. This thing requires many hours/days/months of time and often stress so you guys deserve a rest. Even if you didn't come out ahead I expect that you learned a lot from this year's competition, but I want to especially congratulate those who ended up with a gain this year. It was decisively red market this year during the Olympiad, I think the S&P dropped something like 25% from high to low. So if you made money you are beating 90% of investors out there. We won't know the final rankings for probably a month or so and I don't expect to be doing much more posting about the Olympiad until then.

Thanks for reading and commenting, its the comments and connections I made through this blog that made posting worthwhile. I hope do do this again next year, but it ultimately will be up to IB to pull through and continue the competition in tough economic times. So again, congrats and be sure to treat yourselves to something nice this weekend now that this thing is over!




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IB Olympiad 2009 Day Thirty Seven (Final Day)

Drumroll please......

Here was my ending portfolio:

It turns out that today was a nearly ideal day for DT2009, a great ending to this competition. The roughly flat market coupled with a surge in oil (and DXO) let to a nice gain today to end the competition with an all time high:

Closing Liquidation Value: $1,049,893.61

That's a 5% gain in two months which should be more than enough to make me $1,000. Congrats to everyone who came out ahead.